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January 5, 2026

The CDC's Flusight Forecasts of Flu Hospital Admissions is active and released weekly to monitor the current Flu season

The CDC's Flusight Forecasts of Flu Hospital Admissions is active and released weekly to monitor the current Flu season

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December 19, 2025

The CFA has released the 2025-2026 Respiratory Disease Season Outlook - December Update

The CFA has released the 2025-2026 Respiratory Disease Season Outlook - December Update

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November 25, 2025

Epistorm has released Epistorm-Mix data that provides privacy-preserving contact and contact patterns characterization relevant for the spread of respiratory infectious diseases within the US population

Epistorm has released Epistorm-Mix data that provides privacy-preserving contact and contact patterns characterization relevant for the spread of respiratory infectious diseases within the US population

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Activity in a Snapshot

Advancing Reproductive Number Estimation: Tools, Training, and New Methods

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Flu Forecasting Dashboard

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Epydemix, the ABC of epidemics

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Modeling Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance of Infectious Pathogens at Airports

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Anticipating surges of respiratory disease using Internet search queries

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Observatory of US Contact Patterns

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Real-time Access to Mobility and Behavioral Dynamics Data for Public Health

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Rt Estimate Collabathon

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Innovating modeling and forecasting tools to improve outbreak response

Epistorm is an innovation center of InsightNet, the national network for outbreak and disease modeling established by the CDC’s Center for Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics (CFA) in 2023. As a consortium of research institutions, healthcare systems and private companies we develop innovative methodologies to integrate high-resolution mobility, airline travel, genomic and wastewater surveillance data—with mechanistic, statistical, and deep learning forecasting models to increase the accuracy of predictive analytics to help the U.S. make more informed decisions during future outbreaks of infectious diseases.

epistorm consortium

Northeastern University
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston University
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Ginkgo Biosecurity
Indiana University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MaineHealth
University of California San Diego
University of Florida
University of Virginia

Public health collaborators

New Hampshire DHHS
Maine DHHS
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

"We want to be in a place where there is a National Weather Service for epidemics and epidemic threats."
- Alessandro Vespignani, project lead
Outcomes

By creating new modeling approaches and leveraging novel data sources, we propose to improve outbreak response by focusing on four critical needs in public health emergencies:

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Increased availability of advanced epidemic modeling and predictive analytics with multimodal data integration

by creating advanced tools for the interpretation of data pertinent to potential health threats and their management

supporting implementation of strategic plans while accounting for health inequity issues

by establishing an immersive educational strategy with real-world experience such as collabathons in public health responses and analytics projects, while fostering pathways for their career advancement within public health systems via our student experiential learning model (co-op experiential program).

"We want to be in a place where there is a National Weather Service for epidemics and epidemic threats."
-Alessandro Vespignani,
project lead
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